Juvenile

It's hard to imagine that there was a time when children would rush home from school to hear the latest episode of their favourite serial, but in the mid 40s there were at least thirty such programs broadcast regularly each week.

Challenge Of The YukonShow Count: 365Broadcast History: 3 February 1938 to 28 May 1947, 12 June 1947 to 30 December 1949 and 2 January 1950 to 9 June 1955Sponsor: Quaker OatsCast: Jay Michael, Paul Sutton, John Todd, Brace BeemerDirector: Al HodgeProducer: Al Hodge, George TrendleChallenge of the Yukon was a radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet), and an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. The title changed from Challenge of the Yukon to Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in November 1951, and remained under that name through the end of the series and into television.

Cisco Kid, TheShow Count: 205Broadcast History: 2 October 1942 to 14 February 1945, and 1946-1956Cast: Vicki Volante, Jackson Beck, Louis Sorin, Bryna Raeburn, Jack Mather, Harry LangDirector: Jock MacGregorProducer: J. C. LewisWestern Drama mainly for the young ones or maybe just the young at heart. I say the young at heart, because The Cisco Kid and his likeable but simple partner Pancho were a couple of lovable rogues and because there was usually a lovely senorita around in every episode who fell madly in love with Cisco, there may well have been an element of lady listeners included in the audience rating figures.